History Recap / TheSimpsonsS12E2ATaleOfTwoSpringfields

* ActorAllusion: The members of Music/TheWho are particularly pissed at Homer and Bart trying to trash their hotel room, alluding to their notorious history of the act themselves which famously got them banned from Holliday Inn for life.

* IResembleThatRemark

* ContinuityNod: The angel skeleton from "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E8LisaTheSkeptic Lisa the Skeptic]]" is part of the wall dividing New and Olde Springfield.

* KentBrockmanNews: As seen on the above quote, Kent can't hide his disdain for New Springfield.

Tensions in Springfield bubble when the town is divided into two area codes, eventually splitting it in two. When a dividing wall fails them, it's up to Homer to reunite everybody with a little help from Music/TheWho.

* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: The Who's bodyguard that confronts Homer and Bart when they try to sneak in angrily replies that if he wants to see The Who when Bart asks to meet them, grabs them and goes "well, he's your Who!" after shoving them through a door (in a way that makes it look like he had kicked them out)... then Daltrey and the others get angry because the guard dumped the Simpsons on their green room and it's made clear that he's done that repeatedly. The guard's response is sarcastically reply that "sure, I got fired by The Who" and walk out of the room doing the typical "that guy is cuckoo" finger-near-ear motion (so he's essentially calling the whole band crazy).

--> '''Marge''': I don't know why, but I just didn't feel comfortable until I was back here in New Springfield with my own kind.\\
'''Lisa''': ''(aghast)'' Mom!\\
'''Marge''': They were looking at me, with their eyes.

-->'''Kent Brockman''' (''on TV reporting about New Springfield''): "And while ''we'' speak in a well-educated manner, they tend to use lowbrow expressions like "Oh yeah?" and "C'mere a minute."\\
'''Homer''': Oh yeah?? They think they're better than us, huh? (''to Bart'') Bart, c'mere a minute!\\
'''Bart''': ''You'' c'mere a minute!\\
'''Homer''': ''(shaking his fist)'' Oh yeah??

--> '''Krusty''': I opened for The Who at Woodstock. I came out in a Beatle wig with a ukulele. Hendrix said he almost plotzed. His exact words.\\
'''Sideshow Mel''': [[SarcasmMode Oh, I never tire of THAT story.]]

--> '''Roger, Pete and John''' (in unison): Sacred bond...!

-->(''a businessman approaches Homer, who's sitting in a lounge chair'')\\
'''Businessman''': Excuse me, I couldn't help but overhear. I represent the Arizona Cardinals and-\\
'''Homer''': Keep walkin'.\\
(''Businessman walks sadly away as Homer innocently whistles'')

[[caption-width-right:350:"Look, Lisa! Daddy's in The Who!]]

-->'''Kent Brockman''' (on TV reporting about New Springfield): "And while ''we'' speak in a well-educated manner, they tend to use lowbrow expressions like "Oh yeah?" and "C'mere a minute."\\
'''Homer''': Oh yeah?? They think they're better than us, huh? (to Bart) Bart, c'mere a minute!\\

* MakeRoomForTheNewPlot: Parodied and subverted. The badger in Santa's Little Helper's dog house is immediately forgotten about once the issue of the areas codes comes into play. Homer even shoos it away when it tried to get his attention in the next scene, and it can later be seen scaling the wall between Ye Olde and New Springfield, then again at the end, leaving more badgers to attack the town.

* ThePowerOfRock: An especially rockin' performance of "Won't Get Fooled Again" brings down the dividing wall.

-->(A businessman approaches Homer, who's sitting in a lounge chair)\\
'''Businessman''': Excuse me, I couldn't help but overhear. I represent the Arizona Cardinals and-"\\

(Businessman walks sadly away as Homer innocently whistles)
* TemptingFate: After the Olde Springfielders decide to retaliate for Homer stealing their WHO concert by using a catapult to fire flaming missiles into New Springfield, their first shot misses and hits the Tyre Yard Fire, prompting Homer to laugh and taunt that they can't hit anything. The next shot is a direct hit that sets him on fire (fortunately for Homer, Roger Daltrey quickly puts him out with a water bottle)

* EvenTheDogIsAshamed: After Homer reveals that their hospitals, schools, and food supplies have been cut off due to the wall, almost everyone in New Springfield immediately make a break for Olde Springfield and cross over the wall, including the badger that took over Santa's Little Helper's doghouse. And then a ''tumbleweed'' goes over the wall too.

* EvenTheDogIsAshamed: After Homer reveals that their hospitals, schools, and food supplies have been cut off due to the wall, almost everyone in New Springfield immediately make a break for Olde Springfield, including the badger that took over Santa's Little Helper's doghouse.

* EvenTheDogIsAshamed: After Homer reveals that their necessities have been cut off by the wall, everyone in New Springfield immediately make a break for Olde Springfield, including the badger that took over Santa's Little Helper's doghouse.

** Homer apparently followed The Who back when they were The Hillbilly Bugger boys (of course, this could just be Homer being Homer).

* BrickJoke: The badger from the first act reappears at the very end, leading an army of other badgers to attack Springfield.

* [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse What Happened To The Badger?]]: Parodied and subverted. The badger in Santa's Little Helper's dog house is immediately forgotten about once the issue of the areas codes comes into play. Homer even shoos it away when it tried to get his attention in the next scene, and it can later be seen scaling the wall between Ye Olde and New Springfield, then again at the end, leaving more badgers to attack the town.
** The syndication version of the episode removes the ending with the badgers, essentially removing the subversion.

** Homer standing up to speak at the town meeting is framed to resemble the Creator/NormanRockwell painting "Freedom Of Speech."

* ContinuityNod The angel skeleton from "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E8LisaTheSkeptic Lisa the Skeptic]]" is part of the wall dividing New and Olde Springfield.

* MayorOfAGhostTown: Lisa deems Homer the TropeNamer on the third act, when everybody else on his side of Springfield has left.

* BaitAndSwitch: Homer goes to get "liquid persuasion" for The Who to come to New Springfield, which is implied to be alcohol, but turns out to be chloroform. Then while sneaking into the hotel to find The Who, their security guard grabs Homer and Bart and leads along a hallways before throwing them through a pair of double-doors yelling "Here's your Who!!" While it looks like he's bouncing them out of the hotel, he's actually bringing them to their hotel room (in a humorously aggressive way).

* DisproportionateRetribution: Homer doesn't like the new area code, so he attempts to blow up city hall. [[CrossesTheLineTwice During a town meeting]]. He also is the one that orders the wall to be built. The rest of the Springfield citizens don't get away clean, either, treating their literal neighbors like invaders from a foreign country if they have a different area code.

* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: The Who's bodyguard that confronts Homer and Bart when they try to sneak in angrily replies that if he wants to see The Who when Bart asks to meet them, grabs them and goes "well, he's your Who!" after shoving them through a door (in a way that makes it look like he had kicked them out)... then Daltrey and the others get angry because the guard dumped the Simpsons on their green room and it's made clear that he's done that repeatedly. The guard's response is sarcastically reply that "sure, 'who' is getting angry at me?" and walk out of the room doing the typical "that guy is cuckoo" finger-near-ear motion (so he's essentially calling the whole band crazy).

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Marge laments how the people in Olde Springfield are their neighbors and that they see each other every day. Homer's solution? Build a wall to block them from their sight. Later, Homer brings a bottle of chloroform with him when he tries to sneak into The Who's hotel room... and offers it to the security guard in exchange for him letting them in.